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Answer: JBar Mitzvah, (Judaism) for boys and Bat Mitzvah for girls is the ceremony at age 13 which marks the attaining of religious majority. The boy reads from the Torah (the first five books of Moses of the Old Testament) in Hebrew as his father and grandfather stand proudly by. The cap, or yarmeluke, is work in reverence to the Lord, and the prayer shawl, or tallit, signifies wish to commune with the Lord.